Vols. for 1994-1995 distributed to depository libraries in microfiche.

General Note:

Special "80th anniversary supplement" issue published on Aug. 12, 1994.

General Note:

Special ed. for 65th anniversary of the Panama Canal issued at end of Oct. 1979, is also a joint issue with: The News: authorized unofficial publication of the U.S. Armed Forces, Quarry Heights, Panama, and includes the text of the Panama Canal Act.

Two lady manatees from Panama
have joined the lonely young
Peruvian male who has been living
a bachelor existence in the Chagres
River manatee lagoon these past few
weeks.
The Canal Zone Health Bureau,
as part of the experiment to promote
naturalistic control of the aquatic
vegetation in the Chagres River, last
week brought the two ladies by plane
from the Bocas del Toro area.
The fact that the new additions
are female gave the Health Bureau
manatee experts hope for a future
population explosion in the manatee
lagoon and no doubt made life more
interesting for the young male.
Cargo Plane "Taxi"
The trip to and from Changuinola
to collect the two grass eating sea
cows was made aboard a U.S. Air-
. force C-47 cargo plane from Howard
Air Force Base.
The plane carried two 6-foot
custom-made manatee carrying cases
plus a group of interested manatee
nursemaids from the Health Bureau.
There was considerable consterna-

tion when the manatees from Bocas
del Toro were found to be on the
husky side-with one weighing in at
800 pounds and the second at 300.
A third, weighing 1,000 pounds, was
too large for the cargo plane to
handle on this trip and was left
behind.
Docile, as Usual
Those making the safari with
Canal Zone veterinarian Dr. Nathan
Gale and James MacLaren, Chief of
the Division of Sanitation, reported
that the dark gray mammals acted
in their usual docile manner during
the plane trip back to the Canal
Zone. They were given the manatee
sponge bath treatment and were
hustled to the Chagres River by
truck.
Despite their lethargy during the
4-hour trip, the two lady sea cows
plopped into the lagoon waters with
apparent gratitude and swam off
briskly-possibly in pursuit of the
young man from Peru.
The manatee, which has a tail-fin
resembling that of a whale, is sup-

posed to be just what the doctor
ordered to take care of the aquatic
grass in the Chagres River-they
chomp up to 100 pounds of water
grass in a day.
And They're Big!
Described as easy-going creatures,
they can grow to 9-foot length and
more and sometimes weigh more
than 1,000 pounds.
The idea of bringing the sea cows
here on an experimental basis was
proposed some time ago by J. Palmer
Smith, former assistant to the health
director. He pointed out that they
had been used for years to keep
drainage canals clear in British
Guiana.
In his honor, the manatees living
in the Chagres have been named,
informally: Pam, Jr.; Pamelita I, and
Pamelita II. The field is open, the
manatee guardians say, to those who
want to suggest names for the prog-
eny-if any. There is no rush. It takes
a year for a female manatee to
produce one calf. (Additional pic-
ture in Spanish section.)

Traffic, Tolls Reach New Peaks

Every ship, big or little, that has
been going through the Panama
Canal since Monday has been setting
a record.
By midnight last Sunday, the fiscal
year total lacked only 28 ships of
meeting the former single-year peak
of 11,424 oceangoing ships at the
end of fiscal year 1962. This was
met easily Monday, when more than
40 ships made the passage from
ocean to ocean.
Estimates are that the traffic total
by the end of June and the beginning
of the new fiscal year on July 1 will
total 12,200 ships of more than 300
Panama Canal net tons, or ocean-
* going, by Canal standards. The daily
average in May was 33.61 ships.
At the same time, statistics showed
that by the close of business at mid-
night Sunday tolls collected this year
had reached the all-time high of
$58,347,000 set in 1962. It is esti-
mated that tolls collected during
fiscal year 1964 will gross approxi-
mately $62,300,000 when records are
completed at midnight June 30. This

figure represents gross revenue, from
which operating and maintenance
costs have not been deducted.
Meanwhile, despite the increase in
traffic, the levels of Gatun and
Madden Lakes have begun to rise
following the heavy rains which
marked the beginning of the rainy
season. The Marine Bureau an-
nounced that draft limitations on
large vessels were raised from 36 to
37 feet.
During April, when Gatun Lake
level dropped to 84 feet, limitations
on the maximum draft allowable for
ships using the Panama Canal were
set at 36 feet.
As the lake level continues to rise,
draft limitations will be changed.
When Gatun Lake reaches its normal
rainy season high of 86 feet or more
above sea level, ships with as much
as 38 foot draft will be permitted to
transit.
This draft bonus permits the big
super cargo ships to carry thousands
of dollars more cargo through the
Panama Canal.

The upward swing in Panama
Canal traffic began at the end of
World War II, and each year except
(Continued on p. 4)

Theo F. Hotz

"Oklahoma!" Composer Expresses

Gratitude Show Being Staged Here

The composer of the music for Oklahoma! has expressed "enormous
gratitude" for the fact that the show will be produced at the time the
Canal Zone celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Canal.
In a letter to Gov. Robert J. Fleming, Jr., composer Richard Rodgers
wrote:
"I should like to express . my deep appreciation of the wonderful
service the Canal Zone United Fund has performed and my only regret
is that Oscar Hammerstein is unable to join me in expressing his enthu-
siasm and happiness at the thought that you and your colleagues have
made Oklahoma! your choice."
The spectacular Rodgers and Hammerstein hit musical will be
presented here in August as a United Fund benefit event. Librettist
Oscar Hammerstein II died in 1960.

3 Executive Promotions Announced

In Canal Zone Schools Division

Three promotions in the Canal University of Florida and did grad-
Zone Division of School's executive uate work at the University of

personnel have been announced by
the Civil Affairs Bureau as the result
of the recent retirement of Sigurd
E. Esser as superintendent and pro-
motion of Francis A. Castles to that
position.
Theo F. Hotz, Supervisor of In-
struction for the U.S. Secondary
Schools, has beeo appointed assistant
superintendent of the U.S. Schools,
succeeding Castles.
David A. Speir, Jr., principal of
Balboa High School, has been pro-
moted to the position of supervisor
of instruction, succeeding Hotz.
Clyde Willman, counselor of the
Diablo Heights Junior High School,
has been promoted to principal of
Balboa High School succeeding
Speir.
Hotz was born in New Haven, Mo.
and is a graduate of Heidelberg Col-
lege in Tiffin, Ohio. He received his
master of education degree at Ohio
State University and has done grad-
uate work at the University of
Cincinnati.
Prior to coming to the Canal Zone
in 1937, he taught high school in the
United States. His first position in
the Canal Zone was as teacher
of mathematics at Cristobal High
School. He was principal of Cristobal
High School from 1943 to 1947 and
came to the Pacific side that year to
become principal of Balboa High
School. He held this position until
1961 when he became the Canal
Zone School Division's first super-
visor of instruction, U.S. Secondary
Schools.
A native of Bryan, Ga., Speir is
a graduate of William and Mary Col-
lege in Virginia. He received his
master's degree in education at the

Havana and the University of
Florida.
He is a veteran of the U.S. Air
Force and taught for 3 years at Jack-
sonville Beach, Fla., before coming
to the Canal Zone in 1951. He was
promoted to the position of assistant
principal of Balboa High School in
1959 and to the position of principal
in 1961.
Willman came to the Canal Zone
last year from Fargo, N. Dak., where
he spent 6 years as principal of the
Fargo Central High School. He was
born in St. Louis, Mo., and served
in the U.S. Navy for 8 years during
World War II.
He received his bachelor's degree
from Valparaiso University in Val-
paraiso, Ind., and his master's in
science at Indiana University in
Bloomington. He also took graduate
(Continued on p. 4)

Cristobal Sailing

Date Is Changed
The scheduled July 1 sailing of
the Cristobal from the Canal Zone
has been moved up a day, to
June 30. The ship will arrive in
New Orleans one day earlier than
scheduled.
The date for delivering cars to
the Cristobal Freight House for
the sailing has been moved up a
day to June 29, instead of June 30.
This change in scheduling will
not affect subsequent sailing dates
for the Cristobal. Future sailings
will run according to the regular
schedule.

David A. Speir, Jr.

Pamelita II

Manatees Score Goes from 1-0 to 2-1

THE PANAMA CANAL SPILLWAY

June 12, 1964

Engineer's Wife

Commended for

Work in Japan

Commendation for her work in
community projects and as a volun-
teer teacher in the English training
courses conducted by the American
Cultural Center in Japan has been
received by Mrs. Robert D. Donald-
son, wife of the Panama Canal
project engineer in Japan for con-
struction of the new towing loco-
motives.
The Donaldsons have been in
Japan since June 1960 and expect to
return to the Canal Zone in Sep-
tember.
In a letter to the commanding
officer of the U.S. Army Procurement
Agency, Japan, Francis T. Donovan,
Director of the Cultural Center, said
Mrs. Donaldson, in her position as
a volunteer teacher in the English
Cultural Center, has promoted
better United States-Japan relations
through the highly effective people-
to-people program.
Donovan said, "We spend millions
of dollars throughout the world each
year trying to explain America to
peoples in other lands and yet I
would be hard pressed to find a
program more effective in doing just
that than the volunteer teacher
program.
The Commanding Officer, Lt. Col.
William H. Mason, in a letter to Col.
Matthew C. Harrison, Engineering
and Construction Bureau Director,
said Mrs. Donaldson also has been
active in community projects of
mutual interest to the people of
Japan and the United States forces.
These efforts, he said, fostered
friendly relationships and promoted
several worthwhile projects of bene-
fit to the Japanese and the American
communities in Yokohama.

BROUSInG

COLLECTIOn

By Eleanor

A Gazelle on the Lawn, by Douglas
Fairbaim, traces a series of minor
crises in the lives of the residents of
an exclusive Boston suburb. This is
an effective but peculiar novel, in
which the moral strength of the main
characters appears to become atro-
phied. The book doesn't end-it
merely fades away, thus heightening
the feeling of general futility. This
is Fairbair's first full-length novel.
Reading recipes listed in The Low-
Fat Cookbook for Gourmets, by
Helen Belinki, almost makes reducing
a pleasure. These recipes have had
to be good because Mrs. Belinki,
who is noted for her cooking, home-
tested them on her husband and
daughter for many months before she
made up this collection for publica-
tion. This famous hostess and cook
has accomplished a skillful substitu-
tion of low-fat ingredients for high-
calorie ones and at the same time
has achieved results which will
satisfy the most sophisticated palate.
This may be, as the authoress admits,
a bit of trickery, but it makes
an exciting meal possible for all
reducers.
Verdict Suspended, by Helen
Nielsen, is an easily believable sus-
pense story. The brother of a mur-
dered woman goes through all sorts
of mental turmoil trying to remember
details which happened prior to the
fatal car crash. Getting the hero off
the hook will keep any dedicated
mystery reader occupied for at least
one exciting evening.
Abundance for What? is a collec-
tion of essays by David Riesman,
author of The Lonely Crowd. These
essays are divided into several groups
by subject. The first essays include
a discussion of the impact of the cold
war. The second group, from which
the title of the book is taken, raises

People in the Spotlight

William B. Abresch is a newcomer to the Balboa
Post Office, having recently transferred here from the
Cristobal Post Office.
He was born in Racine, Wis., and was graduated
from Washington Park High School, Racine, in 1950
Afer 8 years' service in the U.S. Navy, he came to
work in the Canal Zone Postal Division in October 1962.
He is married, and the family has been residing in
Coco Solo. Mr. and Mrs. Abresch are the parents of two
children, Zoraida, 3 years of age, and William B., Jr.,
2 years.

*

I

Fred Dunlap, now a substitute employee at Paraiso
Post Office, has been a postal clerk in training only
since October 13, 1963. He first was assigned to Balboa
Post Office. Dunlap served with the U.S. Army from
November 1958 to August 1961, and as a civilian worked
with Burnham & Co. in New York before coming to the
Canal Zone.
He was born at Harvel, Ill. and attended the Harvel
Elementary School. He is a graduate of Raymond High
School at Raymond, Ill., and of Quincy College, at
Quincy, Ill.
He was married 3 years ago in April.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap, who reside in Gamboa, are
the parents of two children, Scott, 2 years of age, and
Jon, 1 year old.

*

Elks Plan for Flag Day Observance

Flag Day will be observed June 14
by the members of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks Lodge
No. 1414 with a special ceremony
- I- 1 1 -I A *- _+k- 11__

brief talk on the history of the flag.
All Elks and their guests are
invited to attend.

^"^ iw 1TT f'f~ A 'E'Dr

questions as to the uses and abuses tO De neta ar 4 p.m. mn me ElKs .UrIS CE .L&U.xn ,
of abundance in our increasing Home in Balboa. The Panama Canal Maintenance
leisure. The third section, Abundance The main speaker will be Col. Engineer's Office has been relocated
for Whom? deals with the distribu- Jerald A. Culhane, Adjutant General, in the Administration Building, to
tion of wealth both in the United USARSOCOM. Room 322. The telephone number
States and abroad. The final section
discusses the problems, methods, and The ceremony also will include also has been changed, to Balboa
opportunities of social science re- the playing of patriotic music and a 3321.
search and raises questions on both
the subject matter and the method
used. Riesman does not pretend to
solve the problems which he raises,
but does try to describe how the THEATER S HEDULE
social sciences bear on the tasks at
hand. This is a thoughtful and pro- Week Beginning Saturday, Thurs.-Oklahoma Territor
Fri.-Man From The Alamo
vocative book written in a scholarly June 13, 1964 Friday, Owl Show 10:00 p.m.-No Name
but readable style. BALBOA n The Bullet
Brightness is a novel by Elizabeth (Air Conditioned) GATUN O
Jenkins, the distinguished English bi- Sat-Sun., 2:30, 6:15, 8:20-Mon., 7:30- Saturday night-Call Me Bwana
ographer. The story revolves around Rampage Sun., 2:00 p.m. Matinee-Room For One
Tues., 7:30-Twice Told Tales Moe
two women, their sons, and a young NVed., 7:30-Judgment At Noremberg Sunday night-Gidget Goes To Rome
girl. Both of the young men are in Thurs., 7:30-Man In The Moon Mon.-NO SHOW
tir twenties both ae loved and Fri., 7:00-The Son Of Captain Blood TWes-The Wheeler Dealers
their twenties; both are loved and Wed.-NO SHOW
cherished by their families. The DIABLO HEIGHTS Thurs.-Pier Five Havana
drama of the story lies in the effect Saturdanight--Son Of Flubba Fri.-Oklahoma Teritoy
Sun., 2:0 0, 7:00-Monday thru Friday one
of the kind of love each receives and show only 7:00 p.m. (Final engagement All night shows begin at 7:00 p.m.
CLEOP~WATRA xcpSt aX shown.
its result. One son becomes dis- Admissi: CLEOPATRA Preleae
Admission: Adults $130f
ciplined and mature while the other, Children under 12 years 75
the indulged charmer, brings disaster GAMBOA O
to all around him. Saturday night, 8:15-Man From The Alamo Special M atinees
The Official Guide to the New York Sun.-Of Love And Desire
Mon.-NO SHOW SATURDAY JUNE 13, 1964
World's Fair prepared by the editors Tus.-She Hands With The Devil SATURDAY JUNE 13,1964
of Time-Life Books is a handy paper- Wed.-Half A Hero BALBOA: 10:00 a.m.-Me And The
back about the fair. The table of con- Thurs.-NO SHOW Colonel-Danny Kaye: A laugh a minute
provides location of Fri.-Air Patrol film. (115 min.)
tents provides location of first aid, COCO SOLO COCO SOLO: 2:00 p.m.-Manhunt In The
telephones, restrooms, etc., and a Jungle-High adventure in the jungles of
(Air Conditioned) Brazil. (In Color.) (85 min.)
good index seems to take care of Saturday night- Sun., 2:00, 7:00-Take DIABLO: 2:00 p.m.-Against All Flags-
everything else. This will be a good Her, She's Mine Errol Flynn: Swashbuckling pirate ad-
book to read before considering going Mon.-They Can't Hang Me venture story. (90 min.)
STues.-Thunder Island GAMBOA: 6:15 p.m.-Yellowstone Kelly-
to the fair, although anyone who Wed.-Thurs.-The Condemned Of Altona A western about exploits of a famous
decides to go will probably want to Fri.-The Last Hurrah fur trapper. (96 min.)
MARGARITA: 2:00 p.m.-Hannibal-Victor
buy his own booklet. The library has MARGARITA Mature: 40,000 men and elephants cross
several copies for the convenience Saturday night-Mouse On The Moon the Alps. (In Color.) (110 min.)
Sun., 2:00 p.m. Matinee-Fort Dobbs GATUN: 2:00 p.m.-The White Warrior-
of planners. They are filed in the Sunday night-Mon., 7:00-The Wheeler Steve Reeves: Reeves portrays a leader
vertical file under the heading V.F.- Dealers of tribesmen in the Caucasus who defied
Tues.-Pier Five Havana Czar Nicholas in the mid-19th Century.
World's Fair, 1964. Wed.-For The First Time (Scope and color.) (95 min.)

SPILLWAY
The PANAMA CANAL SPILLWAY is an
official publication of the Panama
Canal, Balboa Heights, C.Z. News
articles contained in it are made avail-
able to all interested news media for
whatever use they may wish to make
of them and may be reprinted without
official clearance.
ROBERT J. FLEMING, Jr.
Governor of the Canal Zone
DAVID S. PARKER
Lieutenant Governor
FRANK A. BALDWIN
Information Officer
Material intended for publication in
the SPILLWAY should be delivered to
the Panama Canal Press Office or
mailed to PANAMA CANAL SPILLWAY,
Box M, Balboa Heights, C.Z.

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Former Canal

Official Busy

In Honduras
* Eugene C. Lombard, who retired
in 1956 after 7 years as the Panama
Canal's third executive secretary and
37 years of Canal service, hopes the
day is a long way off when he joins
the ranks of retirees sitting on
benches or playing shuffleboard.
In a recent letter to Mrs. Eleanor
Burnham, Canal Zone librarian-
curator, Lombard said he is still in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as director
of the Catholic Relief Services Mis-
sion. His work there and in Vene-
zuela and Costa Rica pertain in part
to the distribution of surplus farm
products under contract with the
U.S. Government.
The main interest, though, he said,
is in socio-economic help, such as
cooperatives, credit unions, low-cost
housing projects, dispensaries and
radio education schools. All of this,
he added, is called community
development and it is a good way to
keep feeling useful.
The National Catholic Welfare
Conference is in 70 countries and
Lombard, who has been in Honduras
since 1961, anticipates that before
long he and his wife will be on their
*way someplace else. He hopes that
when they move again they will be
able to visit Panama.
The Lombards were in the Canal
Zone in 1962. This was his first visit
here since his retirement in 1956.
With the exception of Governor
Goethals, he served under every
Governor of the Canal Zone. He was
popular in the Republic of Panama
and was one of the relatively few
Canal Zone civilians at that time to
receive the order of Vasco Nifiez de
Balboa from the Panamanian Govern-
ment.

", /

Mrs. Betty Sutton

"Open Season"

On Health Plan

To End June 30
U.S.-citizen employees of the
Canal organization are being re-
minded that the "open season" for
making changes in their Health
Benefit Plan or for enrolling in such
a plan will end June 30.
The limited "open season" began
late in March. Any U.S. employee
who missed a previous opportunity
to enroll in a Health Benefit Plan
may do so until the end of this
month.
Employees also may make a
change at this time from self-only
to self-and-family in the same plan
and option. Proper forms may be
* obtained from the Employee Serv-
ices Branch of the Personnel Bureau.

The Isthmus of Panama was
formed about a million years ago,
according to certain scientists. Birds
and animals from the northern con-
tinent crossed the new land bridge
into South America and the South
American species went north, scien-
tists infer.

*A W

A Canal Zone Beatle stops traffic-
literally. The smile says safety first
and a haircut second. Patrol Boy
Captain Joe Alan Hanson, Diablo
Elementary School fifth-grader, is the
son of Major and Mrs. James Hanson
of Fort Kobbe.

Small World

Department
Zone residents who are traveling
in Europe this year keep bumping
into each other and into former
Zone residents, according to Ralph
Skinner, Staff Assistant to the Comp-
troller, who, with his wife, is making
the grand tour.
In a postcard sent from Spain,
Skinner reported that they had spent
an afternoon in Paris with Steve
Powelson, former Panama Canal
deputy comptroller. They also spent
a day in Madrid with Christine Huff,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Huff
of Balboa, who is studying in Spain.
The Skinners reported too that
they found out why folks like Paris.
They stayed there an extra day
themselves.

Isthmian Nurses'

New President

Convention Bound
Mrs. Betty Sutton, newly elected
president of the Isthmian Nurses
Association, will attend the Amer-
ican Nurses Association Convention
in Atlantic City, N.J., next week as
the delegate from the INA.
Also recently installed as officers
for 1964-65 were Winifred Seeley,
first vice president; Eleanor Colbert,
second vice president; Maxine Fitz-
gerald, secretary; Alice Suisman,
treasurer.
Since October 1950 Mrs. Sutton
has been employed as a staff nurse
in the Health Bureau. She has
worked at Gorgas, Colon, and Coco
Solo Hospitals. Last summer Mrs.
Sutton was the director of the Pink
Girl Program at Coco Solo Hospital.
The INA includes professional
registered mlrses holding a license
in the United States, a territory or
a possession. The association has
approximately 103 members and is
a constituent member of the Amer-
ican Nurses Association.

Malaria Reports

Are First in '64

A 4-month period without reported
malaria cases among Canal em-
ployees ended in May when four
cases were reported on the Atlantic
side, two of the four being Panama-
nian employees of the Canal.
Two of the cases were attributed
to unsanitated areas in the Zone. In
one of these the victim had been
fishing in the Chagres River at night.
In addition, cases wpre reported
at Monte Lirio, Gatun River, and
Vista Abajo. The Vista Abajo case is
that of the other Panamanian
employee of the Canal.

Data Processing

Expert Slated

For 12-Day Stay

Dr. Charles K. Pullen, Director of
Statistical Services, Tennessee State
Department of Education, who will
serve as an advisor to the Division
of Schools on automatic data process-
ing will arrive in the Canal Zone
Saturday. During his stay of approxi-
mately 12 days, he will advise the
Division of Schools on the use of
automatic processing systems for
educational data. Dr. Pullen is well
known in this field, having served as
a consultant for the U.S. Office of
Education, the State departments of
education of Oklahoma, Kentucky,
Rhode Island, Florida, and Tennes-
see. He has conducted seminars and
workshops on data processing at col-
leges and universities in the United
States.
Dr. Pullen is president of the
Southern States Council on Educa-
tional Data Systems; national chair-
man of the Council on Educational
Data Systems, and associate editor
of the publication Data Processing
for Education.
Tuesday, June 16, at 3:45 p.m., in.
Balboa High School Activities Build-
ing, Dr. Pullen will give a talk on
the need for and use of automatic
data processing.
Employees of the Panama Canal
organization and other U.S. Govern-
ment agencies, members of the mil-
itary, and other interested persons
are invited to attend.

A recent visitor to the Mount
Hope Industrial Division drydock
facility was the Peruvian whaleship
Don Tomds. She underwent repairs
to her underwater body consisting of
sandblasting, hull painting, replace-
ment of propeller and tailshaft, and
rudder refurbishing.
Small whalers such as the Don
Tomds are employed in making the
kill and delivering the whale to a
shore-based factory for processing of
whale products. They do not have
capabilities to process the whale, as
some whaling vessels do.
The Don Tomds operates exclu-
sively off the coast of Peru and in the
cold Humboldt Current, which is a
haven for whales in that area.
The vessels is credited with more
than 700 whales in the past 10
months.

CZC Summer Session

Classes Start Monday

Registration at Canal Zone College
closes today for the summer session,
which will run from June 15 to
August 6. For those who still are
undecided, registration can be made
Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon and
until class time on Monday. This is
subject to space still being available
in the class section desired.
No class section can be offered
unless it has at least 10 students.
Two classes already are filled to
capacity and several others are near-
ing full enrollment. All interested
persons are urged to sign up as soon
as possible.
Courses in business education,
English, foreign language, engineer-
ing and technology, mathematics,

library science, and social science can
be found on the summer program at
CZC.
Most of the classes carry college
credit. Some, however, are designed
to help pre-college students improve
on a poor grade in high school or
offer high school students the chance
to take a course they cannot fit into
their high school schedule.
Pre-freshman courses to be offered
this summer are driver training,
typing, shorthand, English, Spanish,
mathematics, and social studies.
Registration information and ma-
terials may be obtained from the
college office or by calling Balboa
2380.

College Days and Times
Course Title Credits (Boldface p.m.)
Typewriting, Beginning __- -- ______-- 2 MTWTh-11:40- 1:30
If this section is filled, additional sections will be created.

Additional courses will be scheduled on the following basis:
Ten completed registration blanks and tuition must be brought to the office with a request
that a course be scheduled at a specific time. If a qualified instructor can be obtained, the
course will be scheduled.

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Registration Will Open Tuesday

For Summer Playground Program

The Schools Division's 1964
summer playground program will
begin with registration at all gymna-
siums and swimming pools June
16-19. All activities officially start
Monday, June 22.
Until June 19, all gymnasiums will
be open for free supervised play. All
youngsters are urged to take advan-
tage of this play period and to check
the summer activities schedules prior
to registration.
All units will offer highly varied
and coordinated programs, includ-
ing five basketball leagues. The
classification of a youngster in the
leagues will be determined by age,
height, and weight. Boys' and girls'
volleyball will be played at all gym-
nasiums and a tournament will be
held at the end of the program.
Archery will be offered to all
children 10 years and older. The
shooting distance and number of
arrows will be determined by age
groups. Tournaments will be held to
determine the Canal Zone champs
and individual record holders.
Battleball, relays, frolic games,
quiet games, coloring and drawing
will be offered to youngsters from 5
to 7 years of age at the Balboa gym-
nasium, along with the facilities of
the Balboa Elementary School gym.
All units will offer other activities
varying from weight training, tum-
bling and gymnastics, to girls' basket-
ball and badminton.

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Thomas H. Jordan

CHS Student Chosen

For Special Program

Thomas Hillman Jordan, a junior
at Cristobal High School the past
year, has been selected to attend the
Summer Mathematics Training Pro-
gram for high ability secondary
school students to be held at UCLA,
Los Angeles, Calif., from June 22 to
July 31.
Only about 1 of every 14 appli-
cants, of more than 400 applying,
were selected for the program.
Jordan, who received the out-
standing M-1 cadet award in ROTC
at Cristobal High this year, is the
son of Major and Mrs. Clarence E.
Jordan, Fort Gulick, USARSO.

Parents and students are invited
to visit the gymnasiums and check
the activities schedules. Those stu-
dents living in the Ancon area and
tuition students living in Panama
will register at the Ancon gym.
The swimming pools will offer
activities for youngsters and adults.
Emphasis this year will be on the
beginning swimmer. There also will
be junior and senior lifesaving
courses and competitive swimming.
Registration forms are available at
Canal Zone pools.

Student Assistant

Program Begins;

140 Taking Part

The annual student assistant pro-
gram got under way this week with
140 students to participate. The pro-
gram is designed primarily to furnish
assistancee and relief for the Canal
organization during the vacation
period, when many regular em-
ployees go on leave. It also pro-
vides valuable experience and offers
summer employment for students.
The program-has increased in
several areas since 1963. Nearly 400
applications were received by Per-
sonnel Bureau, about 50 more than
last. year. Ten more students will
have student assistant jobs this year
than last year.
This year's program will iriclude
57 boys, 2 more than last year, and
83 girls, 8 more than in 1963. Of the
140, 93 are college students and 47
are high school students. Last year
there were 40 high school students
and 90 college students. High school
students receive 85 cents an hour
and college students get $1.10 an
hour.
Here is a breakdown by bureaus
of the students who will take part
in this year's program. All are effec-
tive as of June 8, except as otherwise
noted:
Personnel Bureau, 8 (3 effective
June 8, 5 effective July 1); Engineer-
ing and Construction Bureau, 27;
Transportation and Terminals Bu-
reau, 8; Marine Bureau, 12; Health
Bureau, 9; Office of the Comptroller,
31; Civil Affairs Bureau, 21 (11 effec-
tive June 8, 10 effective July 1);
Magistrates' Courts, 1; Safety
Branch, 1; Panama Canal Informa-
tion Office, 2; Supply and Commu-
nity Service Bureau, 14; Administra-
tive Services Division, 5; and Office
of the General Counsel, 1.

BUSINESS ATTRACTIVE
A survey run by the 1964 staff of
the Balboa High School newspaper,
The Parrakeet, revealed that the most
popular choice of profession of the
1964 graduating class at BHS is in
the business world. Forty-seven
seniors will study business at Canal
Zone College and at many States
colleges and universities.

MaG M r F rWI7Er l,---
Leo Krziza, left, and Ben Williams with their catches. The weights, while-
not bad, were less important than the timing.

LIKE A HOLE-IN-ONE AT GOLF

Doubleheader Catch!

Catching black marlin at Pifias
Bay in the Gulf of Panama isn't too
difficult, but getting two simul-
taneous strikes and landing both fish
is a feat similar to a hole-in-one in
golf. That's what happened to golfer
Bennett Williams, Payroll Branch,
and angler Leo Krziza, Motor Trans-
portation Division, on a recent trip
to Pifias in the Caiman II.
It was 10:25 on a windy morning
(complete with rough seas) when
Ben, who never had boated a marlin,
broke the silence with "strike!" He
was ready in an instant and began
to play out line. Leo stood by ready
to pull in his bait when it was known
that Ben's fish was hooked. At the
same time, Leo observed that his
line dropped out of the outrigger,
indicating a "strike," but kept quiet
so as not to disturb Ben's action.
No One Suspected
Unobserved, Leo played his line
out and no one suspected any pos-
sible additional strike, as they were
too busy with Ben. When the signal
was given to start the boat in order
to set the hook, Ben tightened his
drag. Leo, unobserved, did the same.
Seconds later, a huge fish shot into
the air on the rear starboard. While
it was still in the air, the second
black marlin made its debut. Skipper
Ospina Newball screamed, "A dou-
bleheader!"
In came the center outrigger bait
and the handlines. Gaff hooks and
ropes were readied. It is difficult,
however, to help one angler without
putting the other at a disadvantage.
It was "which fish first?" Leo's
started to come easy, but when it
was about 40 feet from the boat, it
took off "greyhounding" across the
sea, so it was Ben's turn. He poured
it on and the fish was gaffed after
a 10-minute battle.
And To Quiet Them . .
It takes about half an hour to land
a marlin. After gaffing, it must be
quieted down with a ball bat
between the eyes and then pulled
aboard. All available men and women
were on the rope to do this job.
Leo's fish now was at the end of
some 300 yards of line. He had to
let it stay far from the boat so it
would not get tangled with Ben and
thus disqualify both fish. Shortly
afterward the procedure again was
followed: gaffing, boating, etc.
Because it was not yet high tide,
the three rigs went out again.

Sharks, however, snatched the bait
and the boat headed back for the
weighing of the marlins. The greater
part of the afternoon was absorbed
weighing fish, picture-taking, taking
the fish back to the boat, cutting
them up, packaging them for the
deep-freeze, and then the major
clean-up job.
Other Catches, Too
It's known how the Krzizas feel
about fishing at the Pifias Bay reef,
and no doubt Williams now is sold
on the favorite spot for big game
fish.
Three other black marlin also were
caught on the same trip: a 416-
pounder and a 275-pounder by
Marcela Schmidt, wife of Louis
Schmidt, Jr., of Balboa, owner of
the Caiman II, and one weighing 375
pounds caught by Krziza's wife,
Ruth.
Of five Pacific sailfish taken, two
were caught by Mrs. Schmidt, two
by Richard Evans, telephone repair-
man, and one by Williams. The
marlin and sailfish both were the first
for Mrs. Schmidt. Evans also hooked
5 of 8 sharks which were caught.

Traffic, Tolls

At Peak
(Continued from p. 1)
1963 the number of large commer-
cial ships transiting the Canal
exceeded the number of transits for
the previous year. Fiscal year 1963
was the only postwar year which
failed to exceed the previous year.
The peak 1962 traffic represented
a 58 percent increase over the
1951-55 traffic average. Cargo ton-
nage for that fiscal year was 88 per-
cent more than the average for the
same period.
Average size of ships using the
Canal also has increased in recent
years.

School Promotions

(Continued from p. 1)
work at Indiana University and the Last Week's Visitors
North Dakota State University. JUNE 1-7, 1964
He taught school for a number of Miraflores Locks ..-. 877
years in Valparaiso before taking the Gatun Locks ____- 137
position of principal of the Fargo Las Cruces, 3 trips _------ 185
High School. For the past year he Reina Manuelita I, 2 trips 15
has been counselor at the Diablo Kiddie Train Rides (Summit) 97
Heights Junior High School. Grand Total... 1,311

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Oklahoma!

Tryouts

Next Week
Tryouts for the more than 40 role
to be filled for Rodgers' and Ham-
merstein's famous hit show, Okla-
homa!, will be held Monday through
Thursday, June 15, 16, 17, and 18.
The tryouts will begin each evening
at 7:30, in the Balboa High School
Activities Building. Oklahoma!,
under the direction of Bruce Quinn,
will be presented in August for the
benefit of the Canal Zone United
Fund.
The 12 leading roles in the show
include four female singing parts,
7 male singing parts, and 1 male
singing and dancing part. Singers
and dancers are also needed to fill
numerous smaller roles and chorus
parts. Those auditioning for singing
roles may bring their own music if
they wish to sing a particular selec-
tion. Those auditioning for dancing
roles should bring their own music
or a record for their tryout per-
formance.
All Isthmians are cordially invited
to donate their talents to Oklahoma!
Those who prefer to be behind the
scenes will find opportunities to work
on set construction, sound and light- _
ing effects, costumes, and the many
other backstage activities essential
to the successful presentation of the
show.

YMCA Offering

Programs for

All Age Groups

The Balboa YMCA is offering a
host of programs for people of all
ages this summer.
Swimming classes will be held at
the "Y" for children and adults,
under the direction of nationally
certified instructors.
Also offered will be competitive
swimming instruction, designed to
improve the individual's technique of
turning, starting, breathing, and
stroke.
A course will be held on the basic
fundamentals and primary safety
aspects of skin and SCUBA diving.
The course will prepare the indi-
vidual for certification as a nationally W
registered YMCA SCUBA diver. The
adult course begins July 1, the junior
course July 2.
The YMCA program of judo train-
ing will emphasize the basic fun-
damentals and beginning techniques
of judo. Instructional activities will
be availbale for the small fry (8-12
years), juniors (13-17 years) and
adults.
The "Y" will conduct classes in
bodybuilding for boys 13 to 17 years
of age on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30
p.m. during June, July, and August.
Leisure activities such as coed
badminton, ladies volleyball, men's
bodybuilding, ladies slim and trim
classes (mornings and afternoons),
open recreational swimming and
individual exercise also will be
offered.
Information concerning the pro-
grams at the Balboa YMCA this
summer may be obtained by calling
the "Y" at Balboa 2759 or 2839.
Program schedules are available at
the YMCA.

PARAISO SANTA CRUZ RAINBOW CITY
Vieres 12 __- The Couch Sergeants Three and Sword Of The Conqueror
Operation Bottleneck
Owl Show 10:00 p.m. Owl Show 10:00 p.m.
The 4-D-Man Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Sfbado 13__--- Fabulous World Of Jules Verne A Child Is Waiting Bimbo The Great
Domingo 14 y The Counterfeit Traitor Hatari A Gathering Of Eagles
Lunes 15 ---__
Martes I 6---- Prince Of Pirates and El Sefior Fot6grafo The Valiant and
The Hard Man Timbucktu
Mircoles 17_-- El Sefior Fot6grafo Prince Of Pirates and The Wrong Arm Of The Law
The Hard Man and Mexico de mi Coraz6n
Jueves 18----- The Young Doctors and A Girl Named Tamiko Sergeants Three and
Lady Of Vengeance Operation Bottleneck
Viernes 19 __- A Girl Named Tamiko The Young Doctors and The Conch
Lady Of Vengeance
Owl Show 10:00 p.m. Owl Show 10:00 p.m.
The Night Fighters The 4-D Man